Report: Sunset Strip Music Festival lost more than $1 million last year
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Los Angeles Times investigation reveals SSMF’s financial woes. The event’s 2014 partner, Nederlander, has filed a lawsuit.
Sunset Strip Music Festival is dead
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During the festival’s seven-year run, the Sunset Strip honored rock greats such as Jane’s Addiction, Joan Jett, the Doors, Motley Crue, Slash and Ozzy Osbourne.
Sunset Strip Music Festival 2014: Five memorable moments on Day 2 in the land of creature features
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On the surface, this year’s Sunset Strip Music Festival looked bigger and better – two days of music on outdoor stages instead of one, with the most attractive lineup top-to-bottom ever, even with the late cancellations of Kaiser Chiefs and Minus the Bear. So where was everybody? Until the headlining sets, crowds were noticeably thinner […]
Sunset Strip Music Festival 2014: Five memorable moments on Day 1 in the land of Gibsons and Jaguars
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By Molly Bergen In some ways, it seemed to be a perfectly average day for the Sunset Strip, a land where angel wings carved onto shoulder blades and octopus tentacle tattoos are considered chic. In other ways, it was most definitely the first day of the Sunset Strip Music Festival, newly expanded to two days […]
Tonight in L.A.: Sunset Strip Music Festival, Beck, Meshell Ndegeocello, Caetano Veloso, Kimbra
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Here’s your Sunday fun: ‣ Day 2 of the Sunset Strip Music Festival with brings audacious Aussies Empire of the Sun to West Hollywood, along with Mayer Hawthorne, Destructo, Iration, Big Data, Tove Lo, Big Freedia, We Came As Romans, Nostalghia, Fenech-Soler, DJ Quik, Killer Mike, N.O.R.E., SPEAK, Babes, PPL MVR, Pterodactyl Jones, FMLYBND and […]
Jane’s Addiction accepts Sunset Strip Music Festival honors, surprises HOB crowd with two-song set
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You didn’t expect a ceremony honoring Jane’s Addiction to be prim and proper, did you? Friday night’s lovefest for the iconic Los Angeles quartet at the House of Blues threatened to go off the rails early and often, but in the end this year’s Sunset Strip Music Festival honorees saved the day as they always […]
Tonight in L.A.: Tarfest, Sunset Strip Music Festival, Beck, Bedrocktoberfest, Make Music Go Bang! Festival, Katy Perry, José James, Chvrches, Better Than Ezra, Odesza, Martina McBride, Mickey Avalon
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Happy Saturday … ‣ Tarfest, the annual free, all-ages music and arts event on the Miracle Mile that kicks off at 1 p.m., brings Hunter Hunted, the Moth & the Flame, DWNTWN, Tapioca and the Flea and the Dead Ships to the La Brea Tar Pits Park. [Set times here.] ‣ Jane’s Addiction, performing their […]
Sunset Strip Music Festival announces set times; Kaiser Chiefs, Minus the Bear no longer playing
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Set times for this weekend’s Sunset Strip Music Festival have been announced – absent two of the bigger artists who originally were scheduled when the lineup was announced back in June. U.K. rockers Kaiser Chiefs and Seattle indie-rockers Minus Bear are no longer performing this weekend at the newly-expanded-to-two-days festival in West Hollywood. Kaiser Chiefs […]
The Week Ahead: Sept. 15-21
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Incoming: Sunset Strip Music Festival, Jane’s Addiction, Failure, Cold War Kids, Empire of the Sun, Mayer Hawthorne, Tarfest, Hunter Hunted, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Mosco Rosco, Fenech-Soler, Soft Swells, Rise Against, Andrew Belle, Daedelus, Karen O, Buzzbocks, Coldplay, Train, De Lux, Magic Mirror, Vulpeck, Augustines, Chuck Ragan, Cheap Trick, Diana Ross, Neutral Milk Hotel, Fatboy Slim, […]
Jane’s Addiction, Empire of the Sun to headline Sunset Strip Music Festival on Sept. 20 and 21
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Sunset Strip icons Jane’s Addiction and Australian electro/metal showmen Empire of the Sun will co-headline the seventh annual Sunset Strip Music Festival – which moves to two days this year, Sept. 20 and 21, in West Hollywood. With original members Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro and Stephen Perkins, Jane’s Addiction will mark the 25th anniversary of […]
